sheep farmer and landholder, was born in Janetstown, Wick, Caithness, on 15 March 1858, the oldest son of four children of Angus Hamilton and Catherine Sutherland. (nb. See editorial comment below)...

colonial surgeon, was born probably in Dublin, the son of Major Joseph Hamilton. He qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a Licentiate of the King and Queen's...

travelling teacher and political activist. Edward Jeffery Hamm was born in Ebbw Vale, Wales on 15 September 1915 to a farming family. He was educated at West Monmouth School, and he became a...

whaling gunner and ship’s captain was born at Breili, Sandeherred (now Sandar) near Sandefjord in Norway on 31 August 1882, the son of Anders Kristian ‘Marum’ Hansen and Karen Amalie née...

sea captain and colonist, was a Dane from the Ditmarches, an area which today is part of northern Germany. Nothing is known about his family background, except that his father is curiously recorded...

Norwegian whaling manager, was born in Nøtterøy, near Tønsberg. He went to sea early and, having landed in America, spent 11 years as a salmon fishing inspector and timberman in Alaska and Seattle....

farm manager, was born in Doncaster, Yorks on 22 October 1930, the middle one of the seven children of Brook Hardcastle and Ethel, née Hinchcliffe. When he was eight his mother died and he was sent...

farm manager, was born in Stanley on 24 October 1893. He was the only son of William Alfred HARDING and Augusta Amy, née Oxborrow. His father was for many years the Stanley manager of the Falkland...

civil servant and businessman, entered the colonial service in 1884 and was temporarily seconded to the Falkland Islands in 1890. Following his return to England in 1892 he was recruited by the...

business man and councillor, was born in Stanley on 15 February 1898, the eldest son of Arthur Hardy, baker, and his wife Mary (Min), née Brown. The family ran Stanley Bakery, in the stone building...

biologist, was born in Nottingham on 10 February 1896, the youngest of the three sons of Richard Hardy, architect and his wife Elizabeth Hannah Clavering.

After school at Oundle, he went to Exeter...

biologist, was born in Norwich on 8 March 1892, the second of the five children of Frederic William Harmer, a wool merchant, and his wife Mary Young, née Lyon. He attended a day school in Norwich...

admiral, was born in London on 19 January 1888, the son of a barrister, Surtees Harwood Harwood and his wife Mary Cecilia, née Ullathorne.

Harwood became a naval cadet in the Britannia in 1903 and...

governor, was born on 25 November 1916 in Dublin, the son of John McDougall Haskard, a British army officer and his wife Alicia, née Hutchins, whose family had been landowners in Co Cork. His...

master mariner, whaler and sealing skipper became a legend at South Georgia, renowned for his seamanship and intimate knowledge of the Island’s maritime geography acquired in the 35 years that he...

genre and landscape painter, was born at Thelton Hall, Norfolk, the third daughter of Thomas HAVERS and his wife Ellen, daughter of the Rev Rogers Ruding , a numismatist and Fellow of the Society...

novelist, was born at Thelton Hall, Norfolk, daughter of Thomas HAVERS and Ellen, née Ruding.

In 1854 Dorothy moved with her parents to the Falkland Islands, where her father was manager of the...

general manager FIC, was the eldest son of Thomas Havers, from a prominent Catholic family of Thelton Hall, Norfolk and Dorothy, née Charlton. Like all his brothers, Thomas was educated at...

naval commander and explorer, was born in Plymouth, the natural (and only) son of Sir John Hawkins. His stepmother (from January 1567) was Katherine Gonson, daughter of Benjamin Gonson, treasurer...

businessman and benefactor, was born in Wolverhampton (Staffs) on 14 June 1923, the son of Sir Charles Hayward and his wife Hilda, née Arnold.

He was educated at Stowe School (Buckingham) and...

sapper sergeant, was christened in Rochester, Kent on 27 March 1814, the son of William Hearnden, gardener, and his wife Sarah. A bricklayer by trade, he entered the Royal Sappers & Miners in...

see HENNIKER HEATON

was probably born in England, and is thought to have been related to James Gooden Helsby, watchmaker and silversmith, who had a business in Buenos Aires between 1821 and 1831 and between 1843 and...

farmer, was training as a mechanical engineer on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway when his father died. Aged about 20 years, he had to support his mother and his sister, so he travelled...

governor, was born in New South Wales, Australia, on 9 February 1880, the third son of Sir John Henniker Heaton, the imperial postal reformer, and his wife Rose, née Bennett. He was educated at...